Here is a handy visual we created for the post “9 Great Concept Mapping Tools for Teachers and Students”. We summarized the main points from that post, for more details you can always refer back to the original article where you can also access a list of a wide variety of educational resources to help you make the best of concept maps in your instruction. More specifically, we provided a working definition of concept maps, their history and the theory underlying them, and then we talked about some of the main benefits and uses of concept maps in education and concluded with some web tools to help students create digital concept maps.

As for the pedagogical strengths of concept maps, we stated that they:

Provide students with nonlinear visual ways to understand, produce, and represent knowledge.